List of University of Texas at Austin faculty
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This list of University of Texas at Austin faculty includes current and former instructors and administrators of the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), a major research university located in Austin, Texas that is the flagship institution of the University of Texas System.[1][2][3] Founded in 1883, the university has had the fifth largest single-campus enrollment in the nation as of Fall 2006 (and had the largest enrollment in the country from 1997 to 2003), with over 50,000 undergraduate and graduate students and 16,500 faculty and staff.[4] It currently holds the largest enrollment of all colleges in the state of Texas.[5]
| Name | Department | Service | Notability | Alumnus | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jay Hartzell | Administration | 2020–2025 | President of the University of Texas at Austin | No | [6] |
School of Architecture
| Name | School | Service | Notability | Alumnus | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Michael Benedikt | Architecture | Professor, Hal Box Endowed Chair in Urbanism, Distinguished Professor of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA), director of the Center for American Architecture and Design | No | [7] | |
| Samuel E. Gideon | Architecture, Architectural History (Texas) | 1931–1945 | No | [8] | |
| Juan Miró | Architecture | Associate dean for Undergraduate Programs, David Bruton, Jr. Centennial Professor in Urban Design, Distinguished Teaching Professor, Academy of Distinguished Teachers University of Texas, and director of Studio Mexico | No | [9] | |
| Steven Moore | Architecture | Bartlett Cocke Regents Professor in Architecture | No | [10] | |
| Lawrence Speck | Architecture | Professor, the W. L. Moody, Jr. Centennial Professor in Architecture, and Distinguished Teaching Professor | No | [11] | |
Moody College of Communication
| Name | Department | Service | Notability | Alumnus | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| John A. Daly | Communication | Professor, publisher | No | [12] | |
| Matthew McConaughey | Radio-Television-Film | 2019–present | Film degree, University of Texas at Austin, 1993; visiting co-teacher for Script to Screen film production since 2015; Academy Award-winning actor with production of over 50 films | Yes | [13] |
College of Education
| Name | Department | Service | Notability | Alumnus | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oscar Mink | Curriculum and Instruction | 1973–2004 | Assistant professor, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1961–1964; senior scientist, manager, Management & Executive Development, Xerox Corporation, Rochester, 1964–1966; associate professor, director division clinical studies West Virginia University, Morgantown, 1966–1970; associate professor, consultant, West Virginia College Graduate Studies, Institute, 1972–1973; professor, University Texas, Austin, from 1973; consultant, Telecom, Australia, since 1988 | No |
Cockrell School of Engineering
| Name | Department | Service | Notability | Alumnus | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Willis Adcock | Electrical Engineering | 1986–1993 | Assisted with invention of the silicon transistor and integrated circuit; fellow of AAAS and IEEE; US National Academy of Engineering | No | [14] |
| Alan Bovik | Electrical Engineering | 1984–2025 | Invented visual quality measurement, monitoring, and control tools used throughout the global photographic, television, cinematic, streaming, and social media industries; IEEE Edison Medal; John Fritz Medal; Primetime Emmy Award; Technology and Engineering Emmy Award; RPS Progress Medal; IEEE Fourier Award; Edwin H. Land Medal; US National Academy of Engineering | No | [15] |
| Edith Clarke | Electrical Engineering | 1947–1957 | First female faculty member of electrical engineering in the US; power engineer; inventor of Clarke Calculator and method of symmetrical components; fellow of IEEE; Society of Women Engineers Achievement Award | No | [16] |
| Donglei Fan | Mechanical Engineering | 2010–present | Principal investigator of the Nanomaterial Innovation Lab; developed techniques for moving nanostructures; built fast nanomotors | No | [17] |
| John B. Goodenough | Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering | 1986–present | Research led to the first lithium-ion battery; Nobel Prize in Chemistry; Charles Stark Draper Prize; Japan Prize; National Medal of Science; Enrico Fermi Award; Copley Medal; US National Academy of Engineering | No | [18] |
| Moriba K. Jah | Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics | 2017–present | Disruptive research in Space Situational Awareness, Astrodynamics, Space Traffic Management, and Space Security; director of Computational Astronautical Sciences and Technologies;[19] Macarthur Fellow; Distinguished Scholar at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law;[20] International Academy of Astronautics | No | [21] |
| Robert M. Metcalfe | Electrical Engineering | 2011–present | Inventor of Ethernet; founded 3Com Corporation; recipient of ACM Turing Award in 2023, IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal in 1988, IEEE Medal of Honor in 1996, National Medal of Technology in 2005; inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2007; Fellow Award from the Computer History Museum in 2008; US National Academy of Engineering | No | [22] |
| Yale Patt | Electrical Engineering | 1999–present | Breakthroughs in computer architecture to make faster processors; inventor of the WOS module; the first complex logic gate implemented on a single piece of silicon; fellow of ACM and IEEE; US National Academy of Engineering | No | [23] |
| Nicholas A. Peppas | Biomedical Engineering | ?-present | Pioneer in drug delivery, biomaterials, hydrogels and nanobiotechnology; US National Academy of Engineering | No | [24] |
| Michael Webber | Mechanical Engineering | 2006–present | Deputy director of the university's Energy Institute; host of PBS's Energy at the Movies | Yes | [25] |
College of Fine Arts
| Name | Department | Service | Notability | Alumnus | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Robert Freeman | Butler School of Music | Dean of the College of Fine Arts (1999–2006); Susan Menefee Ragan Regents Professor of Fine Arts (2006–present) | Dean of the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester, 1972–1996; president of the New England Conservatory 1996–1999; performed as a concert pianist throughout North America and Europe; has published on topics related to 18th-century music history and music education | No | [26] |
| Jerry Junkin | Butler School of Music | Director of Bands at the Butler School of Music, head of the Conducting Division
(1988–present) |
Music director and conductor of the Dallas Winds and the Hong Kong Wind Philharmonia; principal guest conductor of the Senzoku Gakuen College of Music Wind Symphony; previously president of the Big XII Band Director's Association, the College Band Directors National Association, and president of the American Bandmasters Association | Yes | |
| Beili Liu | Art and Art History | Professor, Regents' Outstanding Teaching Professor,[27] First Year Core Program director[28] | University of Texas System Regents' Outstanding Teaching Professor; served as the First Year Core Program director 2011–2013 and 2018–2020; 2016 Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant recipient;[29] 2018 Texas State Artist[30] in 3D medium | No | [31] |
School of Information
| Name | Department | Service | Notability | Alumnus | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Loriene Roy | 1987–present | Former president of the American Library Association | No | [32] | |
| Roberta I. Shaffer | 1999–2001 | Law Librarian of Congress; former dean | No | [33] | |
| Brooke Sheldon | 1991–1996 | Former president of the American Library Association; former dean | No | [34] |
Jackson School of Geosciences
| Name | Department | Service | Notability | Alumnus | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sharon Mosher | Dean's Office | 2009–present | Dean, William Stamps Farish Chair | No | [35] |
School of Law
| Name | Department | Service | Notability | Alumnus | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ted Cruz | Law | 2004–2009 | Future US senator and a 2016 candidate for the Republican nomination for president of the United States | No | [36] |
| William Willard Gibson Jr. | Law | 1965–1998 | Provost of Judicial Education with the Texas Supreme Court for 1992–1993 | Yes | [37] |
College of Liberal Arts
| Name | Department | Service | Notability | Alumnus | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Simone Browne | Sociology | 2007–present | Author of Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness | No | [38] |
| Mounira M. Charrad | Sociology | 2000–present | Political sociologist | No | [39] |
| Elizabeth Cullingford | English | 1982–present | Jane Weinert Blumberg Chair in English Literature since 2011, head of department since 2006 | No | [40] |
| Samuel D. Gosling | Psychology | 1999–present | Personality and social psychologist | No | [41] |
| Linda Dalrymple Henderson | Art History | 1978–present | David Bruton, Jr. Centennial Professor in Art History Emeritus | No | [42] |
| Lee M. Hollander | Germanic Studies | 1920–1968 | Old Norse scholar, head of department | No | [43] |
| Aletha C. Huston | Psychology | 1996–present | Professor; president of the Society for Research in Child Development | No | [citation needed] |
| Frances Karttunen | Linguistics Research Center | 1968–2000 | Academic linguist and researcher on Uto-Aztecan and Finno-Ugric languages; historian of Mesoamerican literature and Nantucket local history | No | [44] |
| James Loehlin | English | 1999–2023 | Marshall Scholar; former director of Shakespeare at Winedale; Shakespeare at Winedale Regents Professor; literary historian | Yes | [45] |
| Jerome Loving | English | Professor of American Literature and Culture | No | [46] | |
| Jeffrey L. Meikle | History | 1979–present | Stiles Professor in American Studies Emeritus | Yes | [47] |
| Harry Moore | Sociology | 1937–1966 | Sociolologist and researcher | Yes | [47] |
| David Oshinsky | Sociology | 2002–2013 | Historian and winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for History for Polio: An American Story | No | [48] |
| Mark Regnerus | Sociology | 2007–present | Sociolologist and researcher | No | [49] |
Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs
| Name | Department | Service | Notability | Alumnus | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carolyn Heinrich | Center for Health and Social Policy (CHASP) | 2011–present | Sid Richardson Professor of Public Affairs | No | [50] |
McCombs School of Business
| Name | Department | Service | Notability | Alumnus | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas W. Gilligan | Dean's Office | 2008–present | Dean, Centennial Chair in Business Leadership | No | [51] |
| Leigh McAlister | Marketing | 1987–present | Executive director, Marketing Science Institute | No | [52] |
| Steve Salbu | Bobbie and Coulter R. Sublett Centennial Endowed Professor; associate dean for graduate programs | 1990–2006 | Dean emeritus of the Scheller College of Business at the Georgia Institute of Technology (2006–2014) | No | [53] |
| Robert C. Solomon | Ethics | 1972–2007 | Chairman, Hegel Society of America | No | |
| Andrew B. Whinston | IROM | 1988–present | Hugh Roy Cullen Centennial Chair in Business Administration; director of the Center for Research in Electronic Commerce | No | [54] |
College of Natural Sciences
| Name | Department | Service | Notability | Alumnus | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Robert S. Boyer | Computer Science | 1981–2008 | Co-inventor of the Boyer–Moore string-search algorithm; co-creator of the Nqthm and ACL2 theorem provers | Yes | [55] |
| Molly S. Bray | Pediatrics | 2013 | Geneticist, chair of the Department of Nutritional Sciences and Susan T. Jastrow Chair for Excellence in Nutritional Sciences | No | [56] |
| Ruth Buskirk | Biology | 1990–present | Molecular genetics, microbiology | No | [57] |
| K. Mani Chandy | Computer Science | 1970–1989 | Distributed computing, including the Chandy-Lamport Algorithm for the determination of consistent global states | No | [58] |
| Edsger W. Dijkstra | Computer Science | 1984–2000 | Numerous foundational contributions to various computing disciplines, especially programming languages, formal verification, and distributed computing; Turing Award for fundamental contributions in the area of programming languages; ACM Fellow | No | [59] |
| Livia S. Eberlin | Chemistry | 2016–present | Co-inventor of the "MasSpec Pen", MacArthur "Genius" Grant and Sloan Research Fellowship | No | [60] |
| E. Allen Emerson | Computer Science | ?-present | Turing Award for "developing model checking into a highly effective verification technology, widely adopted in the hardware and software industries" | Yes | [61] |
| Katherine Freese | Physics | 2019–present | Winner of the 2019 Lilienfeld Prize | No | [62] |
| Kristen L. Grauman | Computer Science | 2007–present | Professor; researcher, computer vision and machine learning; elected to UT's Academy of Distinguished Teachers[63] in 2017 | No | [64] |
| A. M. Harun-ar-Rashid | Physics | 1975 | Quantum field theory, relativity, mechanics | No | |
| David M. Hillis | Biology | 1987–present | 1999 MacArthur Fellow | No | |
| Simon S. Lam | Computer Science | 1977–present | Co-inventor of Secure Sockets Layer; ACM Fellow; elected to the National Academy of Engineering | No | [65] |
| J Strother Moore | Computer Science | 1981–1988, 1997–present | Co-inventor of the Boyer–Moore string-search algorithm; co-creator of the Nqthm and ACL2 theorem provers; ACM Fellow; elected to the National Academy of Engineering; department chair 2001–2009 | No | [66] |
| Nancy A. Moran | Integrative Biology | 2013–present | Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; elected to the National Academy of Sciences; 2010 winner of the International Prize for Biology | Yes | [67] |
| Lili Qiu | Computer Science | 2005–present | Elected as an ACM Fellow in 2018 for "contributions to the design and analysis of wireless network protocols and mobile systems", known for her research on wireless networks | No | [59] |
| Sahotra Sarkar | Integrative Biology | 1990–present | Specialist in the history and philosophy of science | No | |
| E. C. George Sudarshan | Theoretical Physics | 1969–2018 | Glauber–Sudarshan P representation, Lindbladian, Tachyon, Spin–statistics theorem, quantum Zeno effect | No | |
| Karen Uhlenbeck | Mathematics | 1987–2014 | Recipient of the 2019 Abel Prize; held Sid W. Richardson Foundation Regents Chair in her time at the University of Texas at Austin; in 2000, won the National Medal of Science | No | [68][69] |
| Robert van de Geijn | Computer Science | 1987–present | No | [70] | |
| Rachel Ward | Mathematics | 2011–present | Received the IMA Prize in Mathematics and Applications in 2016; co-researcher on developing efficient algorithms using limited data | Yes | [71] |
| Steven Weinberg | Physics | 1982–2021 | Nobel laureate, author | No | [72] |
- Yuval Ne'eman (1925–2006), Israeli physicist, politician, and president of Tel Aviv University
Accounting and finance
- Michael Clement – KPMG Centennial professor[73]
Administration
- Eugene C. Barker – chairman, Department of History (Barker History Center)
- Darlene Grant – associate dean of Graduate Studies
- William Powers, Jr. – law professor, president of the University of Texas at Austin
- Lawrence G. Sager – dean, School of Law
- James Steinberg – dean, LBJ School of Public Affairs
- Ben G. Streetman – dean, Cockrell School of Engineering
- Paul Woodruff – dean of Undergraduate Studies
Arts and entertainment
- Chad Oliver – science fiction and Western writer
- Ellen Spiro – documentary filmmaker
- Louis Alexander Waldman – art historian
Business
- George Kozmetsky – founder of the IC² Institute and former dean of the McCombs School of Business
Education
- Marye Anne Fox – chemist, chancellor of University of California, San Diego and formerly North Carolina State University
- Robert L. Mills – educator; former president of Georgetown College, Kentucky
History, archive, and library science
- Eugene C. Barker – Texas historian, chair of the history department, academic journal editor
- Nettie Lee Benson – historian, archivist, and the namesake of the Benson Latin American Collection
- Daina Ramey Berry – History Department chair, historian specializing in gender, slavery, and black women
- H. W. Brands – author, historian, Jack S. Blanton, Sr. chair of history
- Walter L. Buenger – historian of the American South
- Carlos Castañeda – historian, librarian, and archivist
- Robert Cotner – historian, biographer of James Stephen Hogg
- Louis Tuffly Ellis
- Toyin Falola – author and historian specializing in African studies
- Joe Bertram Frantz – historian, biographer
- George Pierce Garrison – one of the founding faculty members of the Department of History
- A. G. Hopkins – professor emeritus, economic history
- Madeline Y. Hsu – Asian-American and Chinese American history
- Brian P. Levack – professor emeritus, early modern Europe
- Philippa Levine – historian specializing in gender, race, and science; Walter Prescott Webb Professor of History and Ideas
- Standish Meacham – historian
- Steven Mintz – historian
- Joan Neuberger – Russian and Soviet history
- David Oshinsky – professor emeritus
- Charles W. Ramsdell – historian
- Jeremi Suri – historian, Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Global Affairs
- Ann Twinam – professor emeritus, historian, Colonial Latin America
- Walter Prescott Webb – historian of Texas and the American West
- Amelia Worthington Williams – Texas historian
Journalism and publishing
- Gail Caldwell
- J. Frank Dobie – American folklorist, writer, and columnist
- Marvin Olasky – journalist and conservative pundit
Law and government
- James K. Galbraith – head of the University of Texas Inequality Project at the LBJ School of Public Affairs
- Barbara Jordan – first black woman from a Southern state to serve in the U.S. House
- Gretchen Ritter – professor of government at UT Austin 1992–2013[74]
- Oran Milo Roberts – governor of Texas 1879–1883
- T. K. Seung – professor of philosophy, government, and law
Languages and literature
- J. Frank Dobie – folklorist, newspaper columnist
- Américo Paredes – folklorist, novelist
Philosophy
- Robert S. Boyer – professor of philosophy, computer science, and math
- Jonathan Dancy – professor of philosophy
- Robert Kane – professor of philosophy
- Brian Leiter – professor of philosophy and law
- Louis H. Mackey – professor of philosophy
- Aloysius Martinich – professor of philosophy, world-renowned for his knowledge of Thomas Hobbes
- Mark Sainsbury – professor of philosophy
- T. K. Seung – professor of philosophy, government, and law
- Tara Smith – professor of philosophy
- Galen Strawson – professor of philosophy
- Paul Woodruff – professor of philosophy
Science and technology
- Scott Aaronson – computer scientist and blogger
- Milo Backus – geophysicist
- Eric J. Barron – former dean of College of Geosciences; current director of National Center for Atmospheric Research
- Volker Bromm – astronomer
- Adi Bulsara, PhD, 1978 (physics) – leading physicist in the area of nonlinear dynamics
- Alan Cline – computer scientist
- Franklin C. Crow – computer scientist
- Bryce DeWitt – physicist, co-developed Wheeler-DeWitt equation ("wave function of the Universe")
- Cécile DeWitt-Morette – mathematical physicist
- Gordon Gunter – instructor in physiology (1939–1945), then researcher (1945–1949), acting director (1949–1954) and director (1954–1955) of the University of Texas Institute of Marine Science at Port Aransas and editor of Publications of the Institute of Marine Science (1950–1955); influential fisheries scientist who pioneered the study of fisheries in the northern Gulf of Mexico
- G.B. Halsted – mathematician
- Clark Hubbs – ichthyologist
- William H. Jefferys – astronomer
- Zhimin Lu – biologist and oncologist
- Chris Mack – photolithographer
- Hans Mark – aerospace engineer, formerdDeputy administrator at NASA and Secretary of the Air Force
- Thomas Harrison Montgomery, Jr. – zoologist
- Dana Moshkovitz – computer scientist
- Hermann Joseph Muller – geneticist, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine
- Ilya Prigogine – physicist and chemist, Nobel laureate in Chemistry
- Bill Schelter – mathematician, Lisp developer
- Roy Schwitters – physicist, former director of the now-defunct Superconducting Super Collider
- Elliot See – astronaut
- Jonathan Sessler – chemist, pioneering work on expanded porphyrins
- John Tate – mathematician, Wolf Prize in Mathematics
- Harry Vandiver – mathematician
- John Archibald Wheeler – physicist, Wolf Prize in Physics, coined the term 'black hole'
- Robert E. Wyatt – chemist
Social sciences
- Walter Dean Burnham – political scientist
- David Buss – evolutionary psychology
- Mounira M. Charrad – political sociologist
- Madonna Constantine – counseling psychologist
- Scott Freeman – economist
- James K. Galbraith – economist
- Michael G. Hall – historian
- Ian Hancock – linguist and Romani scholar
- Milton W. Humphreys – first professor of Latin and Greek at UT Austin, 1883–1887
- Thomas Pangle – professor of government
- Linda Schele – expert in the field of Maya epigraphy and iconography
- T. K. Seung – professor of philosophy, government, and law
- Christen A. Smith – associate professor of anthropology
- John Traphagan – anthropology
- Philip L. White – professor of Colonial America and Nationality, 1955–2000; political activist and academic free-speech leader
- Luis Zayas – professor of Psychiatry
